#GerrardWinstanley was on the level ...

Wigan Diggers Festival at the weekend - great blend of music, politics, camaraderie and booze as always - and a welcome antidote to the fascist filth going on elsewhere. #wigandiggers #wigan #gerrardwinstanley

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1676, the #TrueLeveller/#Digger ideologue #GerrardWinstanley died. He opposed the growth of #enclosures to cut people off from free land in the #EnglishCivilWar. Diggers broke through to grow food, and this challenge to #capital power was stopped by force.

What I think of when people talk about embracing tradition-
#history
#17thcentury
#politics
#levellers
#diggers
#GerrardWinstanley

#GerrardWinstanley and 30+ other #Diggers occupied #StGeorgesHill on #ThisDayInHistory in 1649 and began working the land collectively in an early form of agrarian #anarchocommunism. Their #DirectAction inspired others to join them and the movement grew until forcibly suppressed.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1676, the #TrueLeveller/#Digger ideologue #GerrardWinstanley died. He opposed the growth of #enclosures to cut people off from free land in the #EnglishCivilWar. Diggers broke these open to grow food, and this challenge to #capital power had to be stopped.

#DOTD in 1676 – Digger #GerrardWinstanley, patron saint of the #commons:

www.onthisdeity.com/10th-septemb...

#OTD 1676 the death of #GerrardWinstanley www.onthisdeity.com/10th-septemb...